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Five Days One Summer is a american film of genre Drama directed by Fred Zinnemann released in USA on 12 november 1982 with Sean Connery
Five Days One Summer (1983)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 12 november 1982
Length 1h36
Directed by Fred Zinnemann
OriginUSA
Themes Sports films
Rating60%
Five Days One Summer is a 1982 American drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Sean Connery. It was the last film that Zinnemann directed.
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It is the story of an illicit romance, set in the Swiss Alps. Connery plays Douglas, a middle-aged Scottish doctor on vacation in the Alps in 1932 with a young woman, Kate (Betsy Brantley), whom he introduces as his wife. Douglas has brought Kate to the Alps for a mountain climbing trip. Douglas and Kate are absorbed with a psychological melancholy. Through flashbacks, it is revealed that Kate has been in love with Douglas since she was a little girl and that she seduced him away from another woman. The flashbacks also reveal that Kate is not his wife, but his niece. But then, in their mountain retreat, climbing guide Johann (Lambert Wilson) appears and he develops an attraction for Kate.Actors
Sean Connery
(Douglas Meredith)
Lambert Wilson
(Johann Biari)
Betsy Brantley
(Kate)
Isabel Dean
(Kate's Mother)
Gérard Buhr
(Brendel)
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